STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 648, sig. 109-4/396

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- 76 - because the former German citizen could not be prosecuted by the Czech courts and was subject to the special German legal system.This guaranteed the authors of violence in all such cases the imsunity.In s p e se s d happened everywhere, where there was a German minority - the Czech Byrrigens became a quake to hell. The Czech mayor of the city was thrown into prison, the city council was dissolved, the Czech schools were given in barracks and converted to German schools, the czech-speaking inhabitants were insulted on the open road and raided in their homes, several times large anti-Czech street demonstrations were held It was organized, sometimes in conjunction with an anti-Semitic pogrom, and another time it was followed by the demolization of a Czech building or a Czech monument. Here - as in all other cities - the monument of the president liberator was first defiled and then destroyed.At each such demonstration hundreds of Ischechen were physically abused, very often women and children. The outbreak of the war brought a new wave of arrests, thousands of burgers from all social classes were taken hostage, because the German regime had no idea of the real attitude of the population in Frotektorat. At the same time, a hay type of attack against the intellectual class was ingurated. Everywhere were intellectual leaders of smaller or greater influence - teachers, priests, directors of various